"Friends of the Rainier Symphony:
I'm excited to present our final Classic Concert series this season: Dark Dreams featuring the music of Berlioz and Mussorgsky. Each of the pieces of this concert has a connection to something mystical, mythical, and metaphysical.
Berlioz's Hungarian March is from his larger work, The Damnation of Faust, which was referred to by Berlioz as a "legende dramatique."
Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain is meant to depict the legend of a witches sabbath that occurred on St. John's Eve.
Our program will conclude with Berlioz's personal journey of love, lust, and altered states. His Symphonie Fantastique tells the story of a love-lorn man who disappears into an opium-induced slumber and has dreams that tell a fantastic tale of romance, majesty, betrayal, murder, justice, and another witches sabbath.
I hope you are able to join us for our unworldly conclusion to our year of Classics Concerts."
